The House That Dripped Blood What if Dario Argento had directed Beetlejuice? That's what fans are saying about Nobuhiko Obayashi's classic 1977 avant-horror, Hausu (House), where, to keep the evil alive, an aunt posseses her niece and sucks the life out of her friends. Stephen Tan reviews. Click here Do Androids Dream Of Electrifying Sex? A mecha who dreams of sex is out for revenge in Kengo Kaji's splatterfest, Samurai Princess. But viewers might be wondering which is more outrageous - the copious bloodletting or the convoluted storyline. Stephen Tan reviews. Click here Seen The Light When a priest is infected with vampiric blood, the first vow to go out the window is the vow of chastity. Stephen Tan reviews Thirst, where Korean Park Chan-wook stands some vampire movie conventions on their head. Click here Click here for more articles

New ROIOs* Yes - Hammersmith Odeon, 2009 Talking Heads - Saratoga 1983: UPGRADE VARIOUS - HBO presents 25th Anniversary Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame Concert 2009 Tom Waits - Tucson, Arizona 1975 Tom Waits - The Agora 1976: Pitched-Fixed Tom Waits - Nighthawks On The Radio 1976 Iggy Pop and The Stooges - Death Trap Paul Simon - Hollywood Bowl, 1991 Jill Sobule - Ann Arbor 2009 Ronnie Spector/ Darlene Love - Christmas Party 2009 Bruce Springsteen - Merry Christmas From Asbury Park The Rolling Stones - LIVEr Than You'll Ever Be: 30th Anniversary Edition Linda Ronstadt - Capital Centre, Maryland 1976 Linda Ronstadt - Live At Budokan 1979: Master cassette The Shadows - Hammersmith Odean, 2004 The Shadows - Birmingham 2005 Pink Floyd - BBC Archives 1967-1969: Revision B 40th Anniversary Edition Magnolia Electric Co - Amsterdam 2009 Don McLean - The Savoy 1981 The Pixies - Paramount Theatre 2009 Bonnie Raitt - Sigma Sound Studios 1972 The Raspberries - Reunion 2009 Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Ahoy, Rotterdam 2009 *Recordings of indeterminate origin Click here for complete list DVD Archive Of Rare Films VARIOUS - HBO presents 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Concert 2009: Edited VARIOUS - HBO presents 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Concert 2009: COMPLETE VARIOUS - HBO presents 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Concert 2009: HD-sourced VARIOUS - Christmas In Rockefeller Center 2009 VARIOUS - Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2009 Top Of The Pops - July 1976 Them Crooked Vultures - Paris 2009: FIXED Them Crooked Vultures - Cologne 2009 VARIOUS - Hurricane Festival Vol 1 2009 VARIOUS - Hurricane Festival Vol 3 2009 David Bowie - Dallas 1978 Eric Clapton - Yokohama 1999 Janine Jansen & Simone Lamsma - Prokofiev & Shostakovich 2008 Jay-Z - New York 2009 ROIO Of The Week Ryan Adams - Ryan Is Dead: Ryan Adams performs The Grateful Dead [no label, 2CD] Selection compiled by Chris Goodwin (goodwin1970@verizon.net). More good stuff at www.ryanadamsarchive.com. Almost all soundboard. A good selection of Ryan Adams covering the Grateful Dead with a lot of help from Phil Lesh. Click here to find out more and to download free MP3s. Audio

Sportsmanship: The Great Olympic Fraud The range of ugliness - from the catty to the racist to the fatal - is significant because it exposes the reality of what the recent Winter Olympics are all about. As sports commentator Dave Zirin points out, "Going for the gold" is no longer about winning races but beating American Idol's Simon Cowell in the ratings. Click here U.S. Super-Rich Get Five Times More Income Than In 1995 Recently uncovered IRS statistics show that it is the rich who have bankrupted the state, with the full assistance of the two pro-business parties. Social programs and the proportion of social resources allocated to the general population have nothing to do with driving the state to the poor house, reports Andre Damon. Click here Wall Street Moves In For The Kill In a recent commentary, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson hit out against regulating Wall Street. But as economist Michael Hudson points out, although Wall Street has extracted US$13 trillion in bailouts just since October 2008, the thought of raising taxes on wealth to pay just $1 trillion over an entire decade for Social Security or health insurance is deemed a crisis that would lead Wall Street to shut down the economy. Click here Click here for more articles

MUSIC REVIEWS VARIOUS Top Of The Pops 1975/1976 [no label 1DVD] By late 1974, the mad rush of glorious new talent (or even non-talent) that had hallmarked the last couple of years of British popdom had finally run out of steam, and the first Top Of The Pops of the new year had no intention of making you think otherwise. By Dave Thompson Click here VARIOUS Top Of The Pops - September and November 1973 [no label 1DVD] It’s number one, it’s Top Of The Pops. By 27 September 1973, the venerable institution was approaching both its tenth birthday and it’s 500th showing; indeed, the first show on this disc is the 499th episode and, with the chart dominated by the Simon Park Orchestra’s instrumental rendering of TV’s Van Der Walk theme music, we’re guaranteed as mixed a bag as the show ever served up. By Dave Thompson Click here Click here for archival music reviews

MOVIE REVIEWS INVICTUS Dir: Clint Eastwood If anyone thought Gran Torino was going to be director Clint Eastwood's swan song, well, here he is again, with Invictus where he doesn't wow the audience with lots of razzle-dazzle but, as Critic After Dark Noel Vera says, you will still find yourself cheering anyway. Click here WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Dir: Spike Jonze As an adaptation of a book, Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are is a failure. You simply cannot adapt perfection, says Critic After Dark Noel Vera. But as a boy's dream (or rather, Jonze's dream of a boy's dream) of his inner demons confronting then sitting down to sadly acknowledge the presence of the other, perhaps even learn to care for the other, the picture is worth seeing. Click here Click here for more movie reviews